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TAXES ON UNHEALTHY FOOD

While a large number of people in underdeveloped countries has still been suffering from famine, over the last decades obesity in wealthy countries has been steadily increasing. Even though not anyone agrees, I personally believe that in order to solve the problem of obesity in wealthy country the government should increase tax on unhealthy food.

One of the main reasons is the fact that the abuse of unhealthy food may cause the rise of serious illnesses. In order to prevent this, government should consider surging the prices of unhealthy food so that people can no longer afford them and choose healthy food instead. Moreover, there should be more campaign against fast food, sugary drinks or confectioneries so as to make people aware of the problem.

In addiction to this, unhealthy food is dangerous for the environment. In support of this, it should be remembered that the large amount of meat needed in fast-food chains is one of the main causes of environmental pollution. Moreover, animals are treated cruelly and forced to gain weight in order to produce more milk or to have more meat to be sold.

Furthermore, increasing taxes on dangerous products has been successful previously with different products, such as cigarettes. It has been proved that a smaller number of people has been smoking now than in the past. Beside the campaigns and advertisements against smoke, the success in reducing the amount of nicotine-addicted people has been caused by the great surge of cigarette prices.

Clearly many people believe that the increase of taxes of unhealthy food limits their freedom and so are unwilling to accept it. Obviously, a great number of people are used to regularly consuming them, but I personally believe that if the companies stopped to promote this kind of products, they would easily choose something else.

To sum up, taxes on unhealthy food may lead to more wise choices in buying products. However, healthy food should be less expensive, so as to be more competitive in the market.